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精品文档Pompeii听力原文The lecture for this class is about the city of Pompeii. A natural disaster occurred there almost 2000 years ago.Today many rich people who live in large metropolitan areas such as Beijing, Paris and New York leave the city in the summer. They go to the mountains or to the seashore to escape the city noise and hit.2,000 years ago, wealthy Romans did the same thing.They left the city of Rome in the summer. Many of these wealthy Romans spent their summers in the city of Pompeii, a beautiful city, located on the Bay of Naples.In the summer of the year 79 C.E., a young Roman boy who later became a very famous Roman historian was visiting his uncle in P. The boys name was Pliny the Younger. One day Pliny was looking up at the sky. He saw a frightening sight. It was a very large dark cloud. This black cloud rose high into the sky. What Pliny saw was the eruption of the volcano called Mount Vesuvius.Rock and ash flew through the air. The city of P . was at the foot of Mt. V. When the volcano first erupted, many people were able to get out of the city and to escape death. In fact, 18,000 people escaped the terrible disaster. Unfortunately, there was not enough time for everyone to escape. More than 2,000 people died. These unlucky people were buried alive under the volcanic ash.The eruption lasted for about 3 days. When the eruption was over, P . was buried under 20 feet of volcanic rock and ash. The city of P . was forgotten for almost 1,700 years.In the year of 1748 an Italian farmer was digging on his farm. As he was digging, he uncovered a part of a wall of the ancient city of P. Soon archaeologists began to dig in the area. As time went by, much of the ancient city of P. was uncovered. Today tourists come from all over the world to see the ruins of the famous city of Pompeii.Napoleon 学术英语视听说unit1原文Today, Im going to talk to you about one of the most important historical figures in European history: Napoleon Bonaparte. Let s start by talking about his early life. Napoleon was born in 1769 on the island of Corsica. When he was only 10 years old, his father sent him to military school in France. N. was not a very good student in most of his classes, but he excelled in mathematics and military science. When he was 16 years old,he joined the French army. In that year 1785 he began the military career that would bring him fame, power,riches,and finally defeat. N.became a general in the French army at the young age of 24.N. had many victories on the battlefield but he also became involved in French law and politics. And in 1804, at the age of 35,he became the first emperor of the France.N. was many things. He was, first of all, a brilliant military leader. His soldiers were ready to die for him. As a result, N.won many military victories. At one time he controlled most of Europe, but some countries, including England, Russia, and Austria fought fiercely against him. His defeat “his end”came when he decided to attack Russia. In this military campaign against Russia, he lost most of his army.The great French conqueror died alone deserted by his family and friends in 1821. N. was only 51 years old when he died.学术英语视听说1 原文 Unit4 Roller CoastersLets talk about the physics involved in a ride on a roller coaster. Im sure many of you have taken a ride on a roller coaster. A simple roller coaster consists of a frame with a track on it. The track is very much like a train track, this track goes over a series of hills and around curves. It follows a path that ends at the same place it started. A train of cars travels around on this track, very fast. The cars have two sets of wheels . One set of wheels rolls on top of the track, and the others set of wheels rolls below the track. The wheels below the track keep the fast moving cars from coming off the track, roller coaster cars as you probably know dont have any motors or engines. Instead, a chain pulls the cars up the first, tallest and steepy staff hill, this is how the ride begins. Then, at the top of the hill the chain comes off the cars and gravity takes over. gravity pushes the cars down the other side of the hill. the taller and steeper the first hill is, the faster the ride will be. And the farther the cars will travel. as the cars rolled downhill they gained speed. the cars have enough speed and energy to send them up the next hill. as the cars near the top of the second hill they begin to slow down. but then, the cars reached the top of that hill, and start down the other side. gravity again pushes them toward the ground. this process repeats on each hale. Okay, so lets go over this process again. first, the cars are pulled by a chain up the first highest hill. then they go down a very steep slope, at this point, there is enough energy to pull the cars up and over the next hill. when they reached the bottom of that hill, there is enough energy to climb the next hill, the roller coaster cars lose energy as the ride continues. so, the hills have to be smaller toward the end of the track, finally we roll to a stop on ground level right where we began.Id like to talk to you today about Steve Jobs. Jobs was someone who changed the world because he changed the way people act every single day. Jobs was born in 1955.He grew up in California ,in that area later became known as the silicon valley. When he was about 14 years old,he became friends with Steven W.W was what people in those days called an electronic with kid .Hed like to design and build his own electronic equipment. In 1975,W stared to design a personal computer,this was at that time when nobody own personal computers in their homes.Jobs was young ,he was only 20,but even then ,he have a shape business brain.Jobs convinced W that their could build these personal computers and grage and sell them.A year later,Jobs and W founded the Apple computer company and started building and selling personal computers, when their Apple two computer went on the market in 1997,it became a huge success.Suddenly, there was a mass market for computer that people could buy and store and use set in there homes.The Apple two became the worlds first mass-produced personal computer.And by the age of25,S was a millionaire. Jobs was bralient in many ways,but he was not very good in working with other people,he needed everything to be perfect,and this caused problems at Apple.In 1985 then,Jobs left Apple and started a new computer company and soon after,he also went into bussiness with a company called P.P was a company trying to develop a system for using CGI-computer generated imitry,to be used in a elemated films,And Jobs was just a person to help them.In1995 ,P released a movie-TOY STORY.It was the first four links computer generated elemated film,it was a big hit and P became a very very profertable company.And Jobs became a very very rich man, a billionaire in fact. In the 10 years after leaving Apple,Jobs learned a lot about working with people and running a company.So when he returned to Apple in 1995，he met many changes,without jobs,apple was not doing so well,Jobs had a vision ,he didnt only want personal computers tobe useful,he also wanted them to be beautiful objects that people would be enjoying looking at and using.In1998,Apple introduced the iMac,a new desk-topped computer,and the next year,the iBook,a new lap top computer,people found both are attractive and they imidiately became popular and apple become a profertable company again.But SJ wasnt finished,he had a even bigger vision,he believed that personal computers will become the center in people”s digital lives.So in2001,Jobs introduced apples digital hub strategy, he told the world that the computer would become the hub of all electronic equipment ,You could connect your camera,your music player and your vedio recorder to the computer manage all your videos,photos and musics using itooms,imovi